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and republican challenger mitt romney left the incumbent looking like road kill what is behind obama's failure and does it really matter. if you started. to cross talk the first us presidential debate i'm joined by rachel mars today in paris she's a political communications strategist and sidney cade a columnist in washington we have nile standage he is a staff writer for the hill and in london we crossed to david nicholson he is a london based freelance journalist right folks cross the girls and i mean he can jump in anytime want to rachel what in the world happened last night why why did obama really bomb. so you just had to relieve the office it's interesting however when saying the bar really low for each of their candidates both campaigns were the word got out that apparently mitt romney was had a really bad night sleep in the hotel because a train whistle kept going off they stayed in some kind of hotel that was near said the train tracks and the whistle kept going off so they were lowering the bar barack obama's campaign was saying look he might not come out too well in this fir
and republican challenger mitt romney left the incumbent looking like road kill what is behind obama's failure and does it really matter. if you started. to cross talk the first us presidential debate i'm joined by rachel mars today in paris she's a political communications strategist and sidney cade a columnist in washington we have nile standage he is a staff writer for the hill and in london we crossed to david nicholson he is a london based freelance journalist right folks cross the girls...
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obama people tried to tried to run this as a referendum on romney but now it's the reverse. right exactly i mean the whole strategy of the obama team has been to portray mitt romney as an unacceptable choice in various ways to portray him as an extremely rich man who doesn't understand ordinary people's problems to portray a must someone who has on the acceptably unacceptable tax policies that really favor the rich excessively that strategy came undone to a certain extent last night and i think that romney did really play his hand pretty strongly in terms of both protesting that he did have a concern for so-called ordinary people and also suggesting that rightly or wrongly that his tax plan was more fair or less favoring the wealthy although let's talk about just briefly because only nihilo me ask you it was a political malpractise for obama not to mention the forty seven percent. political malpractise was really strip it strange it was very surprising it was very very surprised and that has been the big issue for the past couple of weeks in this campaign and it played perfe
obama people tried to tried to run this as a referendum on romney but now it's the reverse. right exactly i mean the whole strategy of the obama team has been to portray mitt romney as an unacceptable choice in various ways to portray him as an extremely rich man who doesn't understand ordinary people's problems to portray a must someone who has on the acceptably unacceptable tax policies that really favor the rich excessively that strategy came undone to a certain extent last night and i think...
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if you look at the rights rhetoric from the time that he was pasturing obama when obama was in the church didn't change these are all the same things as you do you actually read the whole speech where he said god damn america i did those speeches don't you think god would condemn america for the things that are right so god would condemn for america for if they were true it is four hundred years of serious slavery a list was was true no i do believe that four hundred years of slavery is gone and it's true and the reality is that obviously god does hold each human being accountable for his actions you know it gives it the logical discussion right now but the reality is he what he was using was racial politics obama when it was found out that he was under his. guidance said oh i don't want to be associated with that that's racial politics and the media let him get a bar on that i was real good about you never heard about it during two thousand and eight in fact i don't think i ever saw television or read about it in the paper sort of right wing blogs or left wing blog it should or should ha
if you look at the rights rhetoric from the time that he was pasturing obama when obama was in the church didn't change these are all the same things as you do you actually read the whole speech where he said god damn america i did those speeches don't you think god would condemn america for the things that are right so god would condemn for america for if they were true it is four hundred years of serious slavery a list was was true no i do believe that four hundred years of slavery is gone...
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that was near the train tracks and the whistle kept going off so they were lowering the bar barack obama's campaign was saying look he might not come out too well in this first debate so they are lowering the bar but i think ultimately maybe he just had a really long day because i was actually really surprised that mitt romney came across this strongly he was aggressive he was in control. tara listeners right now that although in this program are all none of us really have a dog in this fight. i am very much for romney so i may as well put that put that out there but the same time in a relatively objective analysis and i think it's important to you know disclosure biases before you give an analysis of people viewers can least understand where you're coming from but looking at it really objectively i was surprised because i thought romney would have a pretty difficult time as he has thus far connecting with voters. he's not necessarily a charismatic guy but you don't need to be charismatic in order to connect with voters. we've seen here in france is far from charismatic and he connected wi
that was near the train tracks and the whistle kept going off so they were lowering the bar barack obama's campaign was saying look he might not come out too well in this first debate so they are lowering the bar but i think ultimately maybe he just had a really long day because i was actually really surprised that mitt romney came across this strongly he was aggressive he was in control. tara listeners right now that although in this program are all none of us really have a dog in this fight....
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not quoting any then claim and i'm not quoting obama or hurting the actual numbers obama's claim obama's claim about a five trillion dollars tax cut came from a tax policy center study that in the abstract will tell you the next policies are you are you denying their words that we're collecting two trillion dollars a year in taxes right now no wonder they don't hear you say ninety two times and is twenty romney was not really wasn't exactly what was tax plan but what are you guys both so worried about both candidates are going to grow government anyway you're just going to get a slight decrease in spending from a romney presidency obama you both should be happy liberals or conservatives should all be very happy with the growth of government would be because it because anybody who cares about liberty or freedom or free markets they're screwed anybody who is a working poor but i want to go wherever your freedom riders are you know they're going to go about us remember it is terrible you know it's about us first we've got to have liberty for the koch brothers i get it you know we've got to
not quoting any then claim and i'm not quoting obama or hurting the actual numbers obama's claim obama's claim about a five trillion dollars tax cut came from a tax policy center study that in the abstract will tell you the next policies are you are you denying their words that we're collecting two trillion dollars a year in taxes right now no wonder they don't hear you say ninety two times and is twenty romney was not really wasn't exactly what was tax plan but what are you guys both so...
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mitt romney's sad face and then he brought out the big guns and tweeted what obama didn't even say he wrote i guess i'm the forty seven percent and in fact big bird was quite a hit on the social media stream last night the twitter government account revealed the phrase big bird had generated about seventeen thousand tweets per minute so much for any substantial debate on the direction of this country which bernie. me to my favorite tweet of the night by r t's own web producer andrew blake you pretty much summed it up really well he said christ i was born he's this my thoughts exactly so let's break this up. i i i i. so the debates well it seems like everything had something to say about him watching the corporate news channels is actually pretty funny here's a few reactions. to the rose uncommitted voters right we polled right after the debates tonight the results were quite convincing for governor romney it was no question that the republicans were like. they were a language guy got back in this thing tonight you know the democrats were on the defensive and no president should watch
mitt romney's sad face and then he brought out the big guns and tweeted what obama didn't even say he wrote i guess i'm the forty seven percent and in fact big bird was quite a hit on the social media stream last night the twitter government account revealed the phrase big bird had generated about seventeen thousand tweets per minute so much for any substantial debate on the direction of this country which bernie. me to my favorite tweet of the night by r t's own web producer andrew blake you...
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you battleground states according to almost all of the reputable national polls out there show that obama is ahead in most of these key battleground states and the national polls this week giving president obama a slight lead over governor romney according to the latest fox news poll forty eight percent of likely voters likely voters say that they would vote for the president over governor romney what's interesting here savannah though is it means he now only needs a couple of states a couple of the big states big three that i talk about all the time i'll sort of virginia just a couple of ways and he gets over the finish line i think assuming debate. or even a draw i think the president will win just a few states left for obama to cross that finish line a seriously it's october first so are these polls the biggest news story right now you know what i think is more interesting than a pre-determined election outcome the fact that secrecy about surveillance has increased ten fold under obama than under bush got to the chase here since two thousand and nine electoral votes are bales of americ
you battleground states according to almost all of the reputable national polls out there show that obama is ahead in most of these key battleground states and the national polls this week giving president obama a slight lead over governor romney according to the latest fox news poll forty eight percent of likely voters likely voters say that they would vote for the president over governor romney what's interesting here savannah though is it means he now only needs a couple of states a couple...
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debates are even a draw i think the president will win just a few states for obama to cross that finish line a seriously it's october first so are these polls the biggest news story right now you know what i think is more interesting than a pre-determined election outcome the fact that secrecy about surveillance has increased ten fold under obama than under bush it's got to the chase here since two thousand and nine electoral votes are valence of americans specifically penn registers and trap and trace devices on the phones went from twenty four thousand to nearly thirty eight thousand cases let me make this more visual for you before you request by the a.c.l.u. revealed that more people were subject to some form of surveillance in the past two years and the entire previous decade over the past couple of years there's also been a rise in tracking and surveillance of e-mail network communications and the type of online surveillance that was rarely used in the past but we've learned from the d.o.j. that it's actually increased by a whopping three hundred and sixty one percent between the
debates are even a draw i think the president will win just a few states for obama to cross that finish line a seriously it's october first so are these polls the biggest news story right now you know what i think is more interesting than a pre-determined election outcome the fact that secrecy about surveillance has increased ten fold under obama than under bush it's got to the chase here since two thousand and nine electoral votes are valence of americans specifically penn registers and trap...
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suddenly the popular kids are revealed as being the jerks during his first speech of the year when obama was a kid for a ride stepping on a welcome mat but lately his classmates are beginning to rot in the face of the us as it becomes clear that the alleged bad kid is really just the class clown. when you have the united states directly occupying two countries and militarily involved barely covertly and half a dozen others and trying to gin up. revolution in syria and it's the iran thing just seems to be crossing a line fights between classmates come and go but the cheerleaders are always there rooting for their team c.n.n. just replays constantly obama's speech and and it's constantly you know analyzing what he said and they're ignoring what the other one hundred ninety two countries leaders are talking about and while the high school students aren't making the grades if these guys had to get together for. nine months and just sit there and hash it out and they weren't allowed to go home until they worked stuff out it would be a different you have a different outcome at least the kids a
suddenly the popular kids are revealed as being the jerks during his first speech of the year when obama was a kid for a ride stepping on a welcome mat but lately his classmates are beginning to rot in the face of the us as it becomes clear that the alleged bad kid is really just the class clown. when you have the united states directly occupying two countries and militarily involved barely covertly and half a dozen others and trying to gin up. revolution in syria and it's the iran thing just...
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president obama he's definitely going to have all of the black vote this year again. that's just the reality. of eric and used to be the movable rock that we have american politics but now with a black president in office there could be room bombings there could be illegal wars. black voices are scarcely heard it all in cities all births i think that you were right when you said earlier you know it requires a vision the vision that lasts much longer than even the presidential as stylish and the republic the political establishment in general really requires that grassroots mobilization thank you so much for coming on breaking it down bruce dixon from the black agenda report. thank you for writing us. so if you like what you see so far go to our youtube channel at youtube dot com slash break in the set and subscribe check out our facebook page at facebook dot com slash break in the set give us a like if you wonder about what i'm doing or bitching about when i'm not on air follow me on twitter at abby martin and i take a break from my preaching for now but stay tuned to
president obama he's definitely going to have all of the black vote this year again. that's just the reality. of eric and used to be the movable rock that we have american politics but now with a black president in office there could be room bombings there could be illegal wars. black voices are scarcely heard it all in cities all births i think that you were right when you said earlier you know it requires a vision the vision that lasts much longer than even the presidential as stylish and the...
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secret kill list which includes the names of several american citizens including a teenage girl now obama insists on approving every name on the assassination list which one officials called a macabre baseball cards set of terrorists but as crude as it may sound for a president to oversee a kill list of people to murder killing people with unmanned drones is the smart way to fight terror. in fact the government and media like said that the most effective counterterrorism tool there is check out this pro drone video for the hipster generation by the daily beast. or some critics of drones see almost supernatural effectiveness of the weapon the scene she's just sure of them the most drone operators can linger over targets for hours or even date ensuring that they've got the right target in sight one american drone operator waited until a suspected militant was finished playing with the small children before pulling the trigger i mean hell fire missiles and it was mark. so we the clip is humanizing drone operators saying that they wait for hours and sometimes even days to make sure they have
secret kill list which includes the names of several american citizens including a teenage girl now obama insists on approving every name on the assassination list which one officials called a macabre baseball cards set of terrorists but as crude as it may sound for a president to oversee a kill list of people to murder killing people with unmanned drones is the smart way to fight terror. in fact the government and media like said that the most effective counterterrorism tool there is check out...
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very closely you might have seen ronnie reagan and jimmy carter going at it not mitt romney president obama and that's not a good thing i'll explain why it's still a take. a while come to your take my take a lie the phone lines are now open so if you want to share opinion make a comment ask question live on the air give us a call to a two not a four twenty one thirty four let's pick up the first caller the night leticia in richmond texas tissue welcome to the program. wow hi you're on the air so your comment question. you need to turn down your somebody and just listen to the telephone talk to me on the telephone. hello thank you i have found yes. thanks for having them my concern is this the malaysians the nerds out in houston texas. oh good you need to turn on your t.v. because the there's this there's a delay and it'll be confusing and there are just better yeah yeah you just just talk to me on the telephone and then after we're done you can turn t.v. back up so what's a science fiction. ok my concern is this i'm a registered nurse and you see and. so we all see that now i hear you just
very closely you might have seen ronnie reagan and jimmy carter going at it not mitt romney president obama and that's not a good thing i'll explain why it's still a take. a while come to your take my take a lie the phone lines are now open so if you want to share opinion make a comment ask question live on the air give us a call to a two not a four twenty one thirty four let's pick up the first caller the night leticia in richmond texas tissue welcome to the program. wow hi you're on the air...
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and our battle for power this time in the us saw incumbent obama all at scene probably take a look at why the president's first televised tufnell left his supporters cold while some critics slammed the entire u.s. election system for a lack of or your choice. the riney that takes your breath away treating across the scholars over the monish who do know the biggest salt lake in europe and more than two hundred species of birds that are also it is them are on the verge of extinction on these islands in the south of russia they find shoptalk before my brain trust a part of the world paladins as well as other species at the monish who do low feed on faith these birds are waiting for their parents to bring them food to the best. ash for them is in a small area is a lake with the water is relatively fresh as fish cannot survive in the salt of the month and the lakes get insulted every year the monish with the lows and all to fishel reservoir which was field in the nine hundred fifty s. in the areas hot climate the water evaporates quickly and the local saw as natural sultanate stakes over.
and our battle for power this time in the us saw incumbent obama all at scene probably take a look at why the president's first televised tufnell left his supporters cold while some critics slammed the entire u.s. election system for a lack of or your choice. the riney that takes your breath away treating across the scholars over the monish who do know the biggest salt lake in europe and more than two hundred species of birds that are also it is them are on the verge of extinction on these...
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saw incoming obama all at sea with five presidents first televised tussle left his supporters called while some critics slammed entire u.s. election system for a lack of real choice. flying north with me in this old soviet work or so the helicopter is doctors run amir brodsky and his team from the region's medical aviation service we head across ever more barren tundra higher and higher into russia's arctic far north until eventually we see our landing spot with arrive at this tiny village after crossing hundreds of kilometers of snow a wilderness as a boy here suffering from favre and the doctors are going to see what they can do. inside a small building not one but two babies and their parents are waiting for us the doctors inspect them but can't make a diagnosis and decide to bring them to a regional hospital for better care spread lana doesn't like taking her baby away from home but she's been before and agrees to go that's the usual practice with those who live in atlanta they keep mothers with their newborns in hospital for a month. on the way back another stop to check on the
saw incoming obama all at sea with five presidents first televised tussle left his supporters called while some critics slammed entire u.s. election system for a lack of real choice. flying north with me in this old soviet work or so the helicopter is doctors run amir brodsky and his team from the region's medical aviation service we head across ever more barren tundra higher and higher into russia's arctic far north until eventually we see our landing spot with arrive at this tiny village...
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obama. wasn't brought up in this debate was foreign policy how different are the kinds that he's in that regard. the next debate that we have with these two candidates where they're not very different at all you know president obama. drone commander and she uses kill more people drones and we could ever imagine george bush if you start wars in in a country like libya where there was no u.n. mandate no congressional leaders. yes going to afghanistan. to do the same thing they're both taking nothing on the table as far as attacking iran they both see russia as obama's and serco graham obama's also in circle china and he's also increased their military presence the united states and. so on all these military issues they're both aggressive supporter of the u.s. military empire and i don't see either one of them are coming back the military. kevin zeese director. america group thank you very much thank you very much. and in venezuela the country's two presidential candidates to the home straight
obama. wasn't brought up in this debate was foreign policy how different are the kinds that he's in that regard. the next debate that we have with these two candidates where they're not very different at all you know president obama. drone commander and she uses kill more people drones and we could ever imagine george bush if you start wars in in a country like libya where there was no u.n. mandate no congressional leaders. yes going to afghanistan. to do the same thing they're both taking...
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romney would have no foreign policy of it in the head and now fox news is trying to make president obama look like a foreign policy quack too is this the right's plan the heading into november and their so-called october surprise for american voters and from paper and pens to computers and desk chairs staples business model as all of your office needs covered unfortunately staples business model has the destruction of the american economy covered to tell you why and i still eat it. most of the rest of the news this week the two thousand and three u.s. soldier was killed in afghanistan this is the nation's longest running war and it's also the forgotten war the two thousand death of an american soldier didn't get near the attention it deserves in our corporate media nor did how many afghan civilians have been killed in this war the u.n. estimates that more than thirteen thousand innocent afghan civilians have died so far although the u.n. only started keeping track in two thousand and seven six years after the war started so the numbers probably much closer to twenty thousand or maybe eve
romney would have no foreign policy of it in the head and now fox news is trying to make president obama look like a foreign policy quack too is this the right's plan the heading into november and their so-called october surprise for american voters and from paper and pens to computers and desk chairs staples business model as all of your office needs covered unfortunately staples business model has the destruction of the american economy covered to tell you why and i still eat it. most of the...
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president barack obama was addressing the general assembly. he brought up the fact of this anti islam film that that sparked a lot of anti-american sentiment in the arab world and actually even beyond and he said as as crude and disgusting as he believes that film is as us president he will still defend the constitutional rights of americans to have freedom of expression and freedom of speech but during a song when he was addressing the u.n. . he sort of said obama was being quite hypocritical by persecuting joining us on and his organization wiki leaks for leaking diplomatic cables what why is this seen as hypocritical well i mean it is hypocritical for the president who campaigned on the platform. encouraging whistle blowers and whistle blowing and if you look up its exact words it was very clear that whistleblowers were essential for the health of two democracy once he was elected in two thousand and eight he becomes the president who has gone to war on whistleblowers and he is frank record is such that he has managed to to. to fight more w
president barack obama was addressing the general assembly. he brought up the fact of this anti islam film that that sparked a lot of anti-american sentiment in the arab world and actually even beyond and he said as as crude and disgusting as he believes that film is as us president he will still defend the constitutional rights of americans to have freedom of expression and freedom of speech but during a song when he was addressing the u.n. . he sort of said obama was being quite hypocritical...
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debate between romney and obama to find out where the president went wrong a full shell is coming up next hour. now eighteen elementary school students have been killed in a landslide in southwest china medics police and military personnel are searching for any survivors trapped under the rubble a landslide came down early in the morning hitting the school and nearby houses and blocking a river over eight hundred people were evacuated from the region although it was a holiday in china the children still went to school to make up for the days they had missed because of an earthquake which hit the region last month. massive rival demonstrations are expected in jordan's capital amman and around two hundred thousand supporters of king of dollars reforms and about fifty thousand backers of the opposition muslim brotherhood party are gathering for peaceful rallies at the same venue on friday earlier the king dissolved parliament clearing the way for new elections and he pledged to introduce more reform aiming to avoid arab spring style unrest the country has already faced nearly twenty mon
debate between romney and obama to find out where the president went wrong a full shell is coming up next hour. now eighteen elementary school students have been killed in a landslide in southwest china medics police and military personnel are searching for any survivors trapped under the rubble a landslide came down early in the morning hitting the school and nearby houses and blocking a river over eight hundred people were evacuated from the region although it was a holiday in china the...
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debate polls showed romney overwhelming comment obama in the dual commanding the ninety minute debate but rocky anderson. residential candidate for the justice party thinks two parties ultimately dominating u.s. politics is unhealthy for america. i left the democratic party and helped form the justice party because now the republican and democratic parties are simply one do ugly they have a stranglehold on our electoral system from the stage of getting on the ballot all the way through the debate process and they have both been bought and paid for by the same special interest we have a plutocracy not a democracy in the united states where our government is for sell to the highest bidder romney would bring us along the same path that led to the economic disaster in two thousand and eight with shields tax cuts for the wealthy enormous deficits low employment rates and president obama has a pathetic record he's the only president that has presided over three years of unemployment of over eight percent that absolutely can be changed do we know that that's what the american people want it'
debate polls showed romney overwhelming comment obama in the dual commanding the ninety minute debate but rocky anderson. residential candidate for the justice party thinks two parties ultimately dominating u.s. politics is unhealthy for america. i left the democratic party and helped form the justice party because now the republican and democratic parties are simply one do ugly they have a stranglehold on our electoral system from the stage of getting on the ballot all the way through the...
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i'm barack obama and i approve this message i'm not in favor of a five trillion dollar tax cut that's not my plan the nonpartisan tax policy center concluded that mitt romney's tax plan would cost point eight trillion dollars over ten years why won't romney leveled with this about his tax plan which gives the wealthy huge new tax breaks because according to experts you have to raise taxes on the middle class who are increased the deficit to pay for if we can't trust him how could we ever trust him here rather than acting like sportscasters this morning because mitt romney the winner in my opinion the media needs to be doing its job in fact checking but ultimately president obama did fail last night he failed it calling out mitt romney as an agent of the. president didn't mention romney's forty seven percent comments he didn't mention romney's tax dodging and offshore tax havens he didn't mention romney's career harvesting businesses of bain and of the president can't make the argument that romney's only looking out for the one percent. in my opinion he's going to lose more on that pro
i'm barack obama and i approve this message i'm not in favor of a five trillion dollar tax cut that's not my plan the nonpartisan tax policy center concluded that mitt romney's tax plan would cost point eight trillion dollars over ten years why won't romney leveled with this about his tax plan which gives the wealthy huge new tax breaks because according to experts you have to raise taxes on the middle class who are increased the deficit to pay for if we can't trust him how could we ever trust...
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was netanyahu is turn to take center stage forget obama forget morsi forget okrent is out he said this is my time to shine so what did he do well he pretty much gave a presentation on the biggest danger facing humanity right now take a look. at it. here's a dog. this is a bomb. this is a fuse. in the case of iran's nuclear plans to build a bomb. this bomb has to be filled. with enough food which are really. quite so let me get this straight and animated bomb is our biggest threat right now maybe i just have one thing as stated on. the supreme leader i think it helps some of your information about bombs is coming from those folks it was a cartoon bomb the charade didn't stop there nope he was on a roll check it out. for sure to read. laundry draw. a red learn should be grown right here. before. before you run completes the second stage of nuclear enrichment. necessary to make a bomb so netanyahu is the world he was the teacher and the entire general assembly of world leaders were his fifth grade students class here's my bomb here's the feel here's the red magic marker and this is how we
was netanyahu is turn to take center stage forget obama forget morsi forget okrent is out he said this is my time to shine so what did he do well he pretty much gave a presentation on the biggest danger facing humanity right now take a look. at it. here's a dog. this is a bomb. this is a fuse. in the case of iran's nuclear plans to build a bomb. this bomb has to be filled. with enough food which are really. quite so let me get this straight and animated bomb is our biggest threat right now...
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top political priority over the next two years should be to deny president obama in terms. their obstruction during the first two years of the obama administration worked mostly in the senate where they could use filibusters procedures like colds and filibusters and republicans capitalized in the two thousand and ten midterms to take control of the house of representatives which meant that they were in control of the powerful house government oversight committee and could spend the next two years launching an investigation after investigation which shot after which shot all directed at the white house all to d. legitimize the president in january of two thousand and eleven just as republicans were taking the reins of the house of representatives incoming chairman of the house oversight committee darrell issa said he had all logged on the list of investigations he was ready to open up against president obama and he did just that most notably focusing on fast and furious which he suggested was a conspiracy by the white house to take away everybody's guns none of it was true b
top political priority over the next two years should be to deny president obama in terms. their obstruction during the first two years of the obama administration worked mostly in the senate where they could use filibusters procedures like colds and filibusters and republicans capitalized in the two thousand and ten midterms to take control of the house of representatives which meant that they were in control of the powerful house government oversight committee and could spend the next two...
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debate between romney and obama to find out where the president went wrong for the full shows coming your way at nine thirty g.m.t. . eighteen elementary school students have been killed in a landslide in southwest china massive rival demonstrations are expected in jordan scout but all amman around two hundred thousand supporters of king of dollars reforms and about fifty thousand backers of the opposition muslim brotherhood party are expected to gather for peaceful rallies the same veni on friday earlier the king dissolved parliament clearing the way for new elections he pledged to introduce more reform aiming to avoid arab spring style unrest the country has already faced nearly twenty months of protests with people demanding more stay and the state is run. eighty seven people jailed in tunisia for storming the u.s. embassy and maybe sentenced to death say their defense lawyers back in september and angry mob attacked the diplomatic headquarters in the capital tunis before being met by a strong response from riot police for demonstrators were killed and many more injured in the fol
debate between romney and obama to find out where the president went wrong for the full shows coming your way at nine thirty g.m.t. . eighteen elementary school students have been killed in a landslide in southwest china massive rival demonstrations are expected in jordan scout but all amman around two hundred thousand supporters of king of dollars reforms and about fifty thousand backers of the opposition muslim brotherhood party are expected to gather for peaceful rallies the same veni on...
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iraq so this is one and the same things are that is why when when obama goes up on stage and tries to exert american values as though they're universal values for many muslims they would say this is a hypocrisy there's a contradiction between what america aspires to what america wants to impose in the world and what it well what we know what it claims to be so there's a big gap between the reality and the aspirations of america that's how most muslims will surely see this is going to. be to jump in berkeley go ahead. i mean i think also though it's important not to ignore sort of the local dynamics in place and on all these protests or when we talk about reactions the middle east have to are just pure reactions or are a responses to what's going on in america i mean there is there is a deep political confiscation going on right now especially in egypt between more right wing elements and salaf the parties and the muslim brotherhood and a lot of these demonstrations are mobilizations in front of and many embassies are actually you know best placed in the context of regional dynamics an
iraq so this is one and the same things are that is why when when obama goes up on stage and tries to exert american values as though they're universal values for many muslims they would say this is a hypocrisy there's a contradiction between what america aspires to what america wants to impose in the world and what it well what we know what it claims to be so there's a big gap between the reality and the aspirations of america that's how most muslims will surely see this is going to. be to...
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well as the dust settles in the aftermath of the attack in libya many questions remain and while the obama administration is coming under scrutiny for failing to protect u.s. embassies and diplomatic buildings there's more details coming out today that's adding fuel to the fire according to the washington post several sensitive documents were left inside the ravaged building we're talking about emergency evacuation plans and records of libyans contracted to work at the mission including extensive personal information and what you're looking at right now is ambassador stevens i ten are wary of his trip to libya of course you can see that some of the sensitive information has been blocked out now the compound was reportedly locked up several days after the attack but by then the place was already looted so who knows who has their hands on what at this point and the f.b.i. agents it just arrived in benghazi today so what's taking so long and what does this all mean for the american operation in libya to discuss this and more i'm joined now by warren strobel foreign policy and national securit
well as the dust settles in the aftermath of the attack in libya many questions remain and while the obama administration is coming under scrutiny for failing to protect u.s. embassies and diplomatic buildings there's more details coming out today that's adding fuel to the fire according to the washington post several sensitive documents were left inside the ravaged building we're talking about emergency evacuation plans and records of libyans contracted to work at the mission including...
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well i think i mean looking at obama's speech there is i don't think anyone is surprised that the sort of widespread amnesia that goes on in the political discourse in the west about the role of the united states and europe in propping up authoritarian regimes in the region and i think one of the reasons why the speech rings so false for a lot of people watching outside of the western world is because you know people who people who don't live in the west tend to have longer memories about these sorts of things you know i mean the obama administration would like the narrative of the united states in the middle east to begin the day that he supported the revolution in egypt and actually it doesn't work that way so i mean i think that. americans tend to have just very short memories about the government's role in middle eastern politics and that to me i think is a shame as to the question about the way mr obama drew the distinction about blasphemy and free speech and i think this is an issue that's very difficult for americans to understand but i think a part of it is as you said is becau
well i think i mean looking at obama's speech there is i don't think anyone is surprised that the sort of widespread amnesia that goes on in the political discourse in the west about the role of the united states and europe in propping up authoritarian regimes in the region and i think one of the reasons why the speech rings so false for a lot of people watching outside of the western world is because you know people who people who don't live in the west tend to have longer memories about these...
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debate this week polls showed romney overwhelmed incumbent obama commanding the ninety minute verbal duel romney said his rivals in favor of a trickle. down government while obama said romney will bring the nation back to bush era economic policies the us president has a slight edge in the polls but is vulnerable due to criticism over a weak growth on employment and health care reform american political cartoonist and author ted rall thinks that from a continuous in the same vein he could bypass the current american reader here here with me so it's very hard to tell to see how mitt romney can overcome the lead in the key swing states that obama currently enjoys which considering the state of the economy over the last four years is saying something about the ineptitude of the romney campaign now that said he did outperform expectations last night and you know he is still in the game if he continues to surge and does better in the future debates it's possible that despite vote will be able to turn against obama and go for romney in a two party system that's all we really have what was
debate this week polls showed romney overwhelmed incumbent obama commanding the ninety minute verbal duel romney said his rivals in favor of a trickle. down government while obama said romney will bring the nation back to bush era economic policies the us president has a slight edge in the polls but is vulnerable due to criticism over a weak growth on employment and health care reform american political cartoonist and author ted rall thinks that from a continuous in the same vein he could...
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involves the russian and me and obama's inner circle graham obama's also in circle china he's also increase their military presence the united states in africa . all these military issues they're both aggressive supporter of the us military empire and i don't see you know one of them coming back the military you're using you're going way. very u.s. horn says this debate is an example of how limited americans are over their choice of leader. unfortunately this debate is one reason why nowadays there are those who say that what we haven't learned states is not democracy but a mockery that is to say what happens in other states is that all the candidates of the left such as the green party are barred from this kind of presidential debate and as a result be kinds of policies that president obama has been acting that are subject to withering criticism from the left for example bailing out banks but not bailing out homeowners for example or against libya they were not able to be criticized adequately by his opponent mr romney and as a result you have a very very tepid debate that takes place how
involves the russian and me and obama's inner circle graham obama's also in circle china he's also increase their military presence the united states in africa . all these military issues they're both aggressive supporter of the us military empire and i don't see you know one of them coming back the military you're using you're going way. very u.s. horn says this debate is an example of how limited americans are over their choice of leader. unfortunately this debate is one reason why nowadays...
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plus president obama promised he'd crack down on the banks responsible for the mortgage backed security fraud two years later justice may finally be served but it might not be the change you were looking for and the timing of it all could not be more convenient we'll tell you more. it's tuesday october second eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wahl and you're watching artsy. well perhaps two of the most talked about speeches from the united nations general assembly or from the leaders of two duelling nations that's israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad of course netanyahu how that unforgettable cartoon bomb with a clear red line drawn his speech was aired in full on multiple mainstream networks iran speech however was cut short and that means viewers didn't get to see this. that is a new. and fresh way i think you're an older. woman . now. you're going to. perfection i. want to go in order which is why i was a little. sick you. always walk around going over there. and. i thought it is a sacred gift from. now missions like that make all
plus president obama promised he'd crack down on the banks responsible for the mortgage backed security fraud two years later justice may finally be served but it might not be the change you were looking for and the timing of it all could not be more convenient we'll tell you more. it's tuesday october second eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wahl and you're watching artsy. well perhaps two of the most talked about speeches from the united nations general assembly or from the leaders of...
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they get their say back and if you look at now i should nationwide polling it appears of president obama's pulling away from mitt romney even in the all important swing states where conservatives are saying that's hogwash and that the polls are being skewed because this outlandish conspiracy theory actually prove valuable for conservatives come november. you need to know that the banks there's blatant fraud in the run up to the financial crisis as in gone unnoticed by one top lawyer in the nation new york attorney general eric schneiderman who also chairs the president's mortgage fraud task force filed a civil suit against j.p. morgan chase for quote widespread fraud in the sale of mortgage backed securities and this is the first legal action brought against the banks by this task force most of the allegations are actually against field bank backed bank bear stearns which was bought by j.p. morgan chase and just before the economy went into meltdown in two thousand and eight according to a lawsuit banks at bear stearns knowingly sold defective loans and mortgage backed securities. and kept
they get their say back and if you look at now i should nationwide polling it appears of president obama's pulling away from mitt romney even in the all important swing states where conservatives are saying that's hogwash and that the polls are being skewed because this outlandish conspiracy theory actually prove valuable for conservatives come november. you need to know that the banks there's blatant fraud in the run up to the financial crisis as in gone unnoticed by one top lawyer in the...
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presidency enters its final full months barack obama and mitt romney are betting on the economy as a bargaining chip with voters obama's posting of his success and cracking down on fraud was help from wall street insiders who make a killing by spilling the beans and other whistleblowers received very different treatment from washington as christine for now reports. corporate greed on wall street is an issue that's been center stage ever since the financial meltdown of two thousand and eight now voices on both the right and the left have tried to find ways to deal with the fallout the bottom line here is that there have been some measures taken to try to deal with corporate fraud and abuse one strategy has been to try to lure insiders or whistleblowers to come forward and report what they've seen and even if they've been part of that illegal activity to reward them how much of this goes back to dodd frank a piece of legislation which addresses a number of issues one of them gives incentives to whistleblowers to report those policies which inevitably do harm to customers and taxpayers
presidency enters its final full months barack obama and mitt romney are betting on the economy as a bargaining chip with voters obama's posting of his success and cracking down on fraud was help from wall street insiders who make a killing by spilling the beans and other whistleblowers received very different treatment from washington as christine for now reports. corporate greed on wall street is an issue that's been center stage ever since the financial meltdown of two thousand and eight now...
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the unemployment rate dropped to below eight percent in september for the first time since president obama took office republicans claim the new numbers are being manipulated by the obama administration republicans just mad that their plot to crash the economy has failed i'll ask our panel in tonight's big picture rumble anderson's daily take which you know it's possible to be arrested for trespassing on your own land well it is it's a sign of the corporations are turning america into a third world country. provides conversations with great minds are joined by peter gloss peter is a veteran journalist with over thirty years of experience previously he was the moscow bureau chief and international news editor for business week magazine as well as the executive editor of virginia business magazine he's also worked as a reporter at the virginia and richmond times dispatch dealing with environmental issues and as an investigative journalist peter got his bachelor's degree in political science an era of international relations from tufts university he's also the author of thunder on the mountai
the unemployment rate dropped to below eight percent in september for the first time since president obama took office republicans claim the new numbers are being manipulated by the obama administration republicans just mad that their plot to crash the economy has failed i'll ask our panel in tonight's big picture rumble anderson's daily take which you know it's possible to be arrested for trespassing on your own land well it is it's a sign of the corporations are turning america into a third...